97015038 03 01 01 JB code JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 JB code SLCS 145 GE 15 9789027271082 06 10.1075/slcs.145 00 EA E133 10 01 JB code SLCS 02 JB code 0165-7763 02 145.00 01 02 Studies in Language Companion Series Studies in Language Companion Series 01 01 Linking Constructions into Functional Linguistics Linking Constructions into Functional Linguistics 1 B01 01 JB code 75158806 Brian Nolan Nolan, Brian Brian Nolan Institute of Technology Blanchardstown Dublin 2 B01 01 JB code 519158807 Elke Diedrichsen Diedrichsen, Elke Elke Diedrichsen Google Ireland 01 eng 11 354 03 03 xix 03 00 335 03 24 JB code LIN.FUNCT Functional linguistics 24 JB code LIN.SYNTAX Syntax 24 JB code LIN.THEOR Theoretical linguistics 10 LAN009000 12 CFK 01 06 02 00 This scholarly work is grounded in a functionally oriented model that makes strong claims of descriptive and typological adequacy, and will represent a valuable step forward in linguistics research as it applies the Role and Reference Grammar theoretical framework to the analyses of constructions. 03 00 There is a growing awareness of the significance of constructions in grammar in the world’s languages. To date there has not been a single volume that addresses the issues of constructions within a functional Role and Reference Grammar (RRG) account. The book is a collection of articles that will serve the scholarly community as a reference work on the role, place and significance of constructions within this functional model of grammar. As a result, this volume represents the first instance of cross-linguistic comparison of these important discourse and syntax-related phenomena. The articles cover a variety of typologically different languages including German, Irish, Spanish, French, Japanese, Yaqui, Tepehua (Totonacan), Persian, and English, and they offer new data on the role of constructions, within the RRG theory, in these languages. Further, this volume contributes towards providing a comprehensive overview of grammatical constructions which are central to our understanding of how human languages function, in a functional linguistics perspective. This scholarly work is grounded in a functionally oriented model that makes strong claims of descriptive and typological adequacy. The book will represent a valuable step forward in linguistics research as it applies the RRG theoretical framework to the analyses of constructions. 01 00 03 01 01 D503 https://benjamins.com/covers/475/slcs.145.png 01 01 D502 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_jpg/9789027206121.jpg 01 01 D504 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_tif/9789027206121.tif 01 01 D503 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_front/slcs.145.hb.png 01 01 D503 https://benjamins.com/covers/125/slcs.145.png 02 00 03 01 01 D503 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_back/slcs.145.hb.png 03 00 03 01 01 D503 https://benjamins.com/covers/3d_web/slcs.145.hb.png 01 01 JB code slcs.145.00int 06 10.1075/slcs.145.00int vii xx 14 Article 1 01 04 Introduction Introduction 1 A01 01 JB code 838199144 Brian Nolan Nolan, Brian Brian Nolan 2 A01 01 JB code 118199145 Elke Diedrichsen Diedrichsen, Elke Elke Diedrichsen 01 01 JB code slcs.145.01gue 06 10.1075/slcs.145.01gue 1 22 22 Article 2 01 04 Controller-controllee relations in purposive constructions Controller-controllee relations in purposive constructions 01 04 A construction-based account A construction-based account 1 A01 01 JB code 492199146 Lilián Guerrero Guerrero, Lilián Lilián Guerrero 01 01 JB code slcs.145.02wat 06 10.1075/slcs.145.02wat 23 40 18 Article 3 01 04 Transitivity, constructions, and the projection of argument structure in RRG Transitivity, constructions, and the projection of argument structure in RRG 1 A01 01 JB code 848199147 James K. Watters Watters, James K. James K. Watters 01 01 JB code slcs.145.03tor 06 10.1075/slcs.145.03tor 41 66 26 Article 4 01 04 Constructions in RRG Constructions in RRG 01 04 A case study of mimetic verbs in Japanese A case study of mimetic verbs in Japanese 1 A01 01 JB code 198199148 Kiyoko Toratani Toratani, Kiyoko Kiyoko Toratani 01 01 JB code slcs.145.04moe 06 10.1075/slcs.145.04moe 67 102 36 Article 5 01 04 A constructional perspective on clefting in Persian A constructional perspective on clefting in Persian 01 04 An insight into differentiating between emphatic and deictic in An insight into differentiating between emphatic and deictic in 1 A01 01 JB code 430199149 Farhad Moezzipour Moezzipour, Farhad Farhad Moezzipour 01 01 JB code slcs.145.05kai 06 10.1075/slcs.145.05kai 103 142 40 Article 6 01 04 Radical Role and Reference Grammar (RRRG) Radical Role and Reference Grammar (RRRG) 01 04 A sketch for remodelling the Syntax-Semantics-Interface A sketch for remodelling the Syntax-Semantics-Interface 1 A01 01 JB code 872199150 Rolf Kailuweit Kailuweit, Rolf Rolf Kailuweit 01 01 JB code slcs.145.06nol 06 10.1075/slcs.145.06nol 143 178 36 Article 7 01 04 Constructions as grammatical objects Constructions as grammatical objects 01 04 A case study of the prepositional ditransitive construction in Modern Irish A case study of the prepositional ditransitive construction in Modern Irish 1 A01 01 JB code 254199151 Brian Nolan Nolan, Brian Brian Nolan 01 01 JB code slcs.145.07jim 06 10.1075/slcs.145.07jim 179 204 26 Article 8 01 04 Constructions in Role and Reference Grammar Constructions in Role and Reference Grammar 01 04 The case of the English resultative The case of the English resultative 1 A01 01 JB code 527199152 Rocío Jiménez Briones Jiménez Briones, Rocío Rocío Jiménez Briones 2 A01 01 JB code 861199153 Alba Luzondo Oyón Luzondo Oyón, Alba Alba Luzondo Oyón 01 01 JB code slcs.145.08per 06 10.1075/slcs.145.08per 205 230 26 Article 9 01 04 Towards a model of constructional meaning for natural language understanding Towards a model of constructional meaning for natural language understanding 1 A01 01 JB code 865199154 Carlos Periñán-Pascual Periñán-Pascual, Carlos Carlos Periñán-Pascual 01 01 JB code slcs.145.09iba 06 10.1075/slcs.145.09iba 231 270 40 Article 10 01 04 Meaning construction, meaning interpretation and formal expression in the Lexical Constructional Model Meaning construction, meaning interpretation and formal expression in the Lexical Constructional Model 1 A01 01 JB code 225199155 Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco José Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez 01 01 JB code slcs.145.10but 06 10.1075/slcs.145.10but 271 294 24 Article 11 01 04 Constructions in the Lexical Constructional Model Constructions in the Lexical Constructional Model 1 A01 01 JB code 625199156 Christopher S. Butler Butler, Christopher S. Christopher S. Butler 01 01 JB code slcs.145.11die 06 10.1075/slcs.145.11die 295 330 36 Article 12 01 04 From idioms to sentence structures and beyond From idioms to sentence structures and beyond 01 04 The theoretical scope of the concept "Construction" The theoretical scope of the concept "Construction" 1 A01 01 JB code 974199157 Elke Diedrichsen Diedrichsen, Elke Elke Diedrichsen 01 01 JB code slcs.145.12ind 06 10.1075/slcs.145.12ind 331 336 6 Article 13 01 04 Index Index 01 JB code JBENJAMINS John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 01 JB code JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 https://benjamins.com Amsterdam NL 00 John Benjamins Publishing Company Marketing Department / Karin Plijnaar, Pieter Lamers onix@benjamins.nl 04 01 00 20131206 C 2013 John Benjamins Publishing Company D 2013 John Benjamins Publishing Company 02 WORLD 13 15 9789027206121 WORLD 03 01 JB 17 Google 03 https://play.google.com/store/books 21 01 00 Unqualified price 00 95.00 EUR 01 00 Unqualified price 00 80.00 GBP 01 00 Unqualified price 00 143.00 USD 583010562 03 01 01 JB code JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 JB code SLCS 145 Hb 15 9789027206121 06 10.1075/slcs.145 13 2013033885 00 BB 08 785 gr 10 01 JB code SLCS 02 0165-7763 02 145.00 01 02 Studies in Language Companion Series Studies in Language Companion Series 01 01 Linking Constructions into Functional Linguistics The role of constructions in grammar Linking Constructions into Functional Linguistics: The role of constructions in grammar 1 B01 01 JB code 75158806 Brian Nolan Nolan, Brian Brian Nolan Institute of Technology Blanchardstown Dublin 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/75158806 2 B01 01 JB code 519158807 Elke Diedrichsen Diedrichsen, Elke Elke Diedrichsen Google Ireland 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/519158807 01 eng 11 354 03 03 xix 03 00 335 03 01 23 415 03 2013 P163.5 04 Construction grammar. 04 Role and reference grammar. 04 Grammar, Comparative and general. 10 LAN009000 12 CFK 24 JB code LIN.FUNCT Functional linguistics 24 JB code LIN.SYNTAX Syntax 24 JB code LIN.THEOR Theoretical linguistics 01 06 02 00 This scholarly work is grounded in a functionally oriented model that makes strong claims of descriptive and typological adequacy, and will represent a valuable step forward in linguistics research as it applies the Role and Reference Grammar theoretical framework to the analyses of constructions. 03 00 There is a growing awareness of the significance of constructions in grammar in the world’s languages. To date there has not been a single volume that addresses the issues of constructions within a functional Role and Reference Grammar (RRG) account. The book is a collection of articles that will serve the scholarly community as a reference work on the role, place and significance of constructions within this functional model of grammar. As a result, this volume represents the first instance of cross-linguistic comparison of these important discourse and syntax-related phenomena. The articles cover a variety of typologically different languages including German, Irish, Spanish, French, Japanese, Yaqui, Tepehua (Totonacan), Persian, and English, and they offer new data on the role of constructions, within the RRG theory, in these languages. Further, this volume contributes towards providing a comprehensive overview of grammatical constructions which are central to our understanding of how human languages function, in a functional linguistics perspective. This scholarly work is grounded in a functionally oriented model that makes strong claims of descriptive and typological adequacy. The book will represent a valuable step forward in linguistics research as it applies the RRG theoretical framework to the analyses of constructions. 01 00 03 01 01 D503 https://benjamins.com/covers/475/slcs.145.png 01 01 D502 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_jpg/9789027206121.jpg 01 01 D504 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_tif/9789027206121.tif 01 01 D503 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_front/slcs.145.hb.png 01 01 D503 https://benjamins.com/covers/125/slcs.145.png 02 00 03 01 01 D503 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_back/slcs.145.hb.png 03 00 03 01 01 D503 https://benjamins.com/covers/3d_web/slcs.145.hb.png 01 01 JB code slcs.145.00int 06 10.1075/slcs.145.00int vii xx 14 Article 1 01 04 Introduction Introduction 1 A01 01 JB code 838199144 Brian Nolan Nolan, Brian Brian Nolan 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/838199144 2 A01 01 JB code 118199145 Elke Diedrichsen Diedrichsen, Elke Elke Diedrichsen 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/118199145 01 eng 01 01 JB code slcs.145.01gue 06 10.1075/slcs.145.01gue 1 22 22 Article 2 01 04 Controller-controllee relations in purposive constructions Controller-controllee relations in purposive constructions 01 04 A construction-based account A construction-based account 1 A01 01 JB code 492199146 Lilián Guerrero Guerrero, Lilián Lilián Guerrero 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/492199146 01 eng 30 00

This paper examines purpose and rationale clauses, two subtypes of purposive constructions. The study of these constructions has been mainly developed for English within formal syntax. A purpose clause is a VP-internal adjunct containing a gap bound to the matrix object(i.e. controllee), while a rationale clause is a VP-external adjunct lacking a gap bounded to the matrix object. A similar approach to controller-pivot relationships for purpose has been adopted in previous studies in Role and Reference Grammar. Based on cross-linguistic data, I argue that the lexical manifestation of the controlled element is a language-specific feature, i.e. it can be covert or overt. In some languages, the two lexical manifestations are possible, i.e. a construction-specific property.

01 01 JB code slcs.145.02wat 06 10.1075/slcs.145.02wat 23 40 18 Article 3 01 04 Transitivity, constructions, and the projection of argument structure in RRG Transitivity, constructions, and the projection of argument structure in RRG 1 A01 01 JB code 848199147 James K. Watters Watters, James K. James K. Watters 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/848199147 01 eng 30 00

Traditional “projectionist” accounts of transitivity project the argument structure of a clause from the head verb. Some studies within Construction Grammar have shown this does not account for cases in which syntactic frames override a verb’s inherent transitivity, arguing instead that transitivity is determined by the syntactic construction. Such examples typically come from English and related languages in which many or most verbs freely occur in transitive or intransitive frames without any overt derivational morphology. However, in languages such as Tepehua (Totonacan), verbs have rigidly specified transitivity, with no such overriding of argument structure. Role and Reference Grammar treats argument structure as a projection from the composite logical structure, accounting for clause structure in both types of languages.

01 01 JB code slcs.145.03tor 06 10.1075/slcs.145.03tor 41 66 26 Article 4 01 04 Constructions in RRG Constructions in RRG 01 04 A case study of mimetic verbs in Japanese A case study of mimetic verbs in Japanese 1 A01 01 JB code 198199148 Kiyoko Toratani Toratani, Kiyoko Kiyoko Toratani 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/198199148 01 eng 30 00

This paper examines the ability of a mimetic verb in Japanese (e.g. burabura ‘manner of swinging’ + suru ‘do’ → burabura-suru) to occur in different morphosyntactic environments. Following Van Valin (2013), it argues that two seemingly contradictory standpoints, a constructionist’s view (Tsujimura 2005) and a projectionist’s view (Kageyama 2007), are actually complementary. While an account of intransitive mimetic verbs requires no postulation of constructional schemas, as these verbs show straightforward cases of linking in simple sentences, the paper utilizes two constructional schemas to cover notable characteristics of transitive mimetic verbs: one for mimetics compounded by -sase ‘cause’ and the other for the colloquial alternate of the adverbial mimetic-transitive verb combination.

01 01 JB code slcs.145.04moe 06 10.1075/slcs.145.04moe 67 102 36 Article 5 01 04 A constructional perspective on clefting in Persian A constructional perspective on clefting in Persian 01 04 An insight into differentiating between emphatic and deictic in An insight into differentiating between emphatic and deictic in 1 A01 01 JB code 430199149 Farhad Moezzipour Moezzipour, Farhad Farhad Moezzipour 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/430199149 01 eng 30 00

The goal of this chapter is to provide a Role and Reference Grammar (RRG henceforth) analysis of cleft sentences in Persian with respect to the role of interaction over the domains of syntax, semantics and information structure. Clefting is functionally motivated by thematically marked expression of a single proposition via bi-partition syntax in the sense that a sequence of two clauses including a matrix and a cleft clause is employed in order to bring into focus an element that can be otherwise expressed as a non-focal element in the unmarked predicate-focus structure. This deviation from the unmarked predicate-focus structure feeds cleft sentences with a non-isomorphic/non-compositional feature that can be accounted for in terms of a constructional framework that encompasses the morphosyntactic, semantic and informational properties that a cleft construction has. RRG is equipped with a bi-lateral syntax-semantics representation that is enriched with discourse-pragmatic considerations which enables it to facilitate processing of linguistic properties of cleft constructions by means of constructional schemas. Non-compositionality in a cleft construction implies that the semantic composition of the whole cleft construction is not the “computable sum of the meaning of its parts” (Lambrecht 1994: 230). That is why a construction-based scrutiny will be necessary to explain how the mapping between semantics and information structure in clefting can be elucidated with respect to the syntactic juxtaposition of the constituents. It will be also discussed that there should be a necessity to distinguish between emphatic in in clefting and anaphoric in in extraposition in the Persian language with regard to the role of information structure that is distinctively formalized in the syntactic templates of the two constructions on the basis of the RRG constructional framework.

01 01 JB code slcs.145.05kai 06 10.1075/slcs.145.05kai 103 142 40 Article 6 01 04 Radical Role and Reference Grammar (RRRG) Radical Role and Reference Grammar (RRRG) 01 04 A sketch for remodelling the Syntax-Semantics-Interface A sketch for remodelling the Syntax-Semantics-Interface 1 A01 01 JB code 872199150 Rolf Kailuweit Kailuweit, Rolf Rolf Kailuweit 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/872199150 01 eng 30 00

Starting from the idea of a “holistic approach” (Van Valin 1980) based on text interpretation and communication analysis, the chapter sketches a radical, i.e. back to the roots, remodelling of standard RRG (Van Valin & LaPolla 1997; Van Valin 2005, 2010). It will be shown that a bidirectional linking algorithm (syntax-to-semantics and semantics-to-syntax), no matter how useful it may be for computational implementation, is not an adequate model of human communication. As Van Valin (2006) himself recognizes, the semantic as well as the syntactic representation are already infiltrated by one another. Thus, RRRG will abandon the linking algorithms and instead advocate for three structural levels of different complexity that assumedly function simultaneously: lexical items, syntactic-semantic event templates and construction schemas. As in standard RRG, general rules and principles operate at all levels. In RRG, the most prominent of these principles is the Actor-Undergoer-Hierarchy which is based on actionsart-driven Logical Structures (LS). However, LS prove to be too coarse-grained to describe the different activity degrees material to argument realization. Therefore, a finer-grained Activity Hierarchy will be introduced. The functioning of this centrepiece of RRRG will be illustrated with verbs of emotion (Kailuweit 2005, 2007, 2012a) at the level of lexical items and with anticausative constructions (Kailuweit 2011b, 2012b) at the level of constructional schemas.

01 01 JB code slcs.145.06nol 06 10.1075/slcs.145.06nol 143 178 36 Article 7 01 04 Constructions as grammatical objects Constructions as grammatical objects 01 04 A case study of the prepositional ditransitive construction in Modern Irish A case study of the prepositional ditransitive construction in Modern Irish 1 A01 01 JB code 254199151 Brian Nolan Nolan, Brian Brian Nolan 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/254199151 01 eng 30 00

It is now accepted that constructions exist at all levels in grammar from clausal syntax to word level morphology and even within the lexicon itself where lexical items themselves may be viewed as constructions. Constructions may also encompass lexical, semantic and pragmatic information. The semantics and/or pragmatics are not predictable from the set of lexical items in the construction. There is now recognition that the RRG account of constructions is a significantly under-utilised resource (Nolan 2013, 2012a, b, 2011). As functional linguists, the important empirical questions are: (1) How does the theory understand a construction? (2) What does a construction contain? (3) How do the constructions relate to the grammar and other constructions? (4) To what extent is our grammatical knowledge organized in constructions? (5) Do constructions include information about form, function and meaning? (6) Are constructions organized in a structured network? This paper proposes a view of constructions as structured grammatical objects and we motivate this account with new evidence of constructions from Modern Irish.

01 01 JB code slcs.145.07jim 06 10.1075/slcs.145.07jim 179 204 26 Article 8 01 04 Constructions in Role and Reference Grammar Constructions in Role and Reference Grammar 01 04 The case of the English resultative The case of the English resultative 1 A01 01 JB code 527199152 Rocío Jiménez Briones Jiménez Briones, Rocío Rocío Jiménez Briones 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/527199152 2 A01 01 JB code 861199153 Alba Luzondo Oyón Luzondo Oyón, Alba Alba Luzondo Oyón 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/861199153 01 eng 30 00

Framed within Role and Reference Grammar, this chapter provides a finer-grained account of the English resultative constructions (e.g. He hammered the metal flat/into a knife), which enriches the constructional schema suggested in Van Valin (2005). In so doing, we mainly follow the work carried out by Nolan (2011a, b) and Diedrichsen (2010, 2011), while also drawing on insights coming from the family of Construction Grammars (e.g. Goldberg 1995; Goldberg & Jackendoff 2004, inter alios). In turn, a further step is taken here by proposing the incorporation of additional features such as the motivation of the construction and its family resemblance connection; two essential issues which heavily depend upon the role of metaphor and metonymy (Ruiz de Mendoza & Mairal 2011).

01 01 JB code slcs.145.08per 06 10.1075/slcs.145.08per 205 230 26 Article 9 01 04 Towards a model of constructional meaning for natural language understanding Towards a model of constructional meaning for natural language understanding 1 A01 01 JB code 865199154 Carlos Periñán-Pascual Periñán-Pascual, Carlos Carlos Periñán-Pascual 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/865199154 01 eng 30 00

Few researchers in natural language processing are nowadays concerned with linguistically-aware applications. On the contrary, the prevailing trend is towards the search of engineering solutions to practical problems, where researchers are motivated by the immediate gratification from the stochastic paradigm. As a result, there have been few attempts to confront the new challenges in linguistics from the natural language processing approach. The goal of this chapter is to introduce the theoretical foundation underlying ARTEMIS, a knowledge-based system which is intended to simulate natural language understanding in the framework of Role and Reference Grammar. More specifically, we will focus on how to enhance this functional model in order to make argumental constructions play a decisive role in the computational analysis of the deep semantics in the text.

01 01 JB code slcs.145.09iba 06 10.1075/slcs.145.09iba 231 270 40 Article 10 01 04 Meaning construction, meaning interpretation and formal expression in the Lexical Constructional Model Meaning construction, meaning interpretation and formal expression in the Lexical Constructional Model 1 A01 01 JB code 225199155 Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco José Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/225199155 01 eng 30 00

This paper discusses how the Lexical Constructional Model (LCM) contributes to our understanding of meaning is constructed, interpreted and expressed. It especially addresses the role of constructional meaning in this complex process, while making critical revisions of other constructionist accounts of language, whether cognitivist or functionalist. It includes the notion of replicability into the definition of construction. According to this notion, a form-meaning pairing can be considered a construction, even if the pairing is not frequent, provided that it can be felt by competent native speakers as being ‘potentially replicable’, i.e. as being naturally meaningful without doing any violence to the nature of the language to which the construction belongs. The paper further argues that constructional structure mediates the syntactic realization of verbal meaning. In this view, meaning is not composed by assembling concepts, as postulated in Cognitive Grammar, but rather by making use of the conceptual scaffolding provided by constructions. Then, the paper relates the architecture of the LCM to a taxonomy of cognitive models and addresses meaning construction from the point of view of the descriptive and explanatory tools of the LCM. These tools include the definition of several central processes: subsumption, amalgamation, and saturation of variables. The role of each process is assessed at the various descriptive levels of the LCM. Finally, the paper relates formal expression to meaning representation in terms of idiomatic and non-idiomatic constructions. In this connection it specifies the requirements for full formal expression and relates such requirements to the format of constructional templates in the LCM.

01 01 JB code slcs.145.10but 06 10.1075/slcs.145.10but 271 294 24 Article 11 01 04 Constructions in the Lexical Constructional Model Constructions in the Lexical Constructional Model 1 A01 01 JB code 625199156 Christopher S. Butler Butler, Christopher S. Christopher S. Butler 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/625199156 01 eng 30 00

This article discusses the concept of construction in the Lexical Constructional Model, focusing on tensions, concerned largely with the relationship between meaning and form in constructions, which have arisen in the model as a result of contributions from three different groups of scholars: functionalists, cognitivists and computational linguists/computer scientists. The article examines precursors of the LCM which made use of ideas from Role and Reference Grammar, and then assesses the influence of the cognitivist contribution and the later input from the computational knowledge base, FunGramKB, also based partly on RRG. Finally, it summarises recent work in RRG, suggesting that the new proposals for treating constructional schemas as central to RRG could prove useful in working towards solutions of the problems arising within the LCM.

01 01 JB code slcs.145.11die 06 10.1075/slcs.145.11die 295 330 36 Article 12 01 04 From idioms to sentence structures and beyond From idioms to sentence structures and beyond 01 04 The theoretical scope of the concept "Construction" The theoretical scope of the concept "Construction" 1 A01 01 JB code 974199157 Elke Diedrichsen Diedrichsen, Elke Elke Diedrichsen 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/974199157 01 eng 30 00

The paper will explore the theoretical scope of the concept “construction”, as envisaged in Constructional approaches to grammar. Starting from the Role and Reference Grammar notion of Constructions, as represented in “Constructional Schemas”, it will be argued that Constructional Schemas as representations of linguistic knowledge can be used not only for language specific constructions, but for the wide range of argument structure and sentence structure constructions as well. This will be exemplified by extensive discussions of two well known German construction types, which are the bekommen-passive, a passive three-place argument structure construction, and the bracket structure, which is a sentence structure pattern that forms the basis of many syntactic phenomena in German. It will be argued that the Construction in this sense is to be treated as a “grammatical object”, whose use is systematically constrained by context factors and also by lexical-semantic factors. The Constructional Schemas give an extensive representation of the constructions by providing the constraints of their use, the constraints for their recognition in a stream of speech or writing, their syntax, their semantics, morphology and pragmatics. The model of constructional schemas caters for real-time processing in a workspace. The notion of constructional knowledge for the processing of linguistic utterances is then taken a step further and expanded to include constructions whose use and functionality is not mainly based on grammatical knowledge, but rather on cultural knowledge. Some “idioms” do not “work” on their own, but require a very subtle mix of culturally acquired background knowledge and situational factors, and their use is deeply embedded in basic behavioural patterns in a society of speakers. I will introduce three speech act constructions, which do not exhibit the form-function correlation that is generally described for the linguistic realisation of illocutionary force, and explain their pragmatic effects by adhering to Dawkin’s notion of the cultural unit “meme” and Wittgenstein’s idea of “life form”.

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893010563 03 01 01 JB code JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 JB code SLCS 145 Eb 15 9789027271082 06 10.1075/slcs.145 00 EA E107 10 01 JB code SLCS 02 0165-7763 02 145.00 01 02 Studies in Language Companion Series Studies in Language Companion Series 11 01 JB code jbe-all 01 02 Full EBA collection (ca. 4,200 titles) 11 01 JB code jbe-2015-all 01 02 Complete backlist (3,208 titles, 1967–2015) 05 02 Complete backlist (1967–2015) 11 01 JB code jbe-2015-linguistics 01 02 Subject collection: Linguistics (2,773 titles, 1967–2015) 05 02 Linguistics (1967–2015) 11 01 JB code jbe-2015-slcs 01 02 Studies in Language Companion Series (vols. 1–171, 1978–2015) 05 02 SLCS (vols. 1–171, 1978–2015) 01 01 Linking Constructions into Functional Linguistics The role of constructions in grammar Linking Constructions into Functional Linguistics: The role of constructions in grammar 1 B01 01 JB code 75158806 Brian Nolan Nolan, Brian Brian Nolan Institute of Technology Blanchardstown Dublin 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/75158806 2 B01 01 JB code 519158807 Elke Diedrichsen Diedrichsen, Elke Elke Diedrichsen Google Ireland 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/519158807 01 eng 11 354 03 03 xix 03 00 335 03 01 23 415 03 2013 P163.5 04 Construction grammar. 04 Role and reference grammar. 04 Grammar, Comparative and general. 10 LAN009000 12 CFK 24 JB code LIN.FUNCT Functional linguistics 24 JB code LIN.SYNTAX Syntax 24 JB code LIN.THEOR Theoretical linguistics 01 06 02 00 This scholarly work is grounded in a functionally oriented model that makes strong claims of descriptive and typological adequacy, and will represent a valuable step forward in linguistics research as it applies the Role and Reference Grammar theoretical framework to the analyses of constructions. 03 00 There is a growing awareness of the significance of constructions in grammar in the world’s languages. To date there has not been a single volume that addresses the issues of constructions within a functional Role and Reference Grammar (RRG) account. The book is a collection of articles that will serve the scholarly community as a reference work on the role, place and significance of constructions within this functional model of grammar. As a result, this volume represents the first instance of cross-linguistic comparison of these important discourse and syntax-related phenomena. The articles cover a variety of typologically different languages including German, Irish, Spanish, French, Japanese, Yaqui, Tepehua (Totonacan), Persian, and English, and they offer new data on the role of constructions, within the RRG theory, in these languages. Further, this volume contributes towards providing a comprehensive overview of grammatical constructions which are central to our understanding of how human languages function, in a functional linguistics perspective. This scholarly work is grounded in a functionally oriented model that makes strong claims of descriptive and typological adequacy. The book will represent a valuable step forward in linguistics research as it applies the RRG theoretical framework to the analyses of constructions. 01 00 03 01 01 D503 https://benjamins.com/covers/475/slcs.145.png 01 01 D502 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_jpg/9789027206121.jpg 01 01 D504 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_tif/9789027206121.tif 01 01 D503 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_front/slcs.145.hb.png 01 01 D503 https://benjamins.com/covers/125/slcs.145.png 02 00 03 01 01 D503 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_back/slcs.145.hb.png 03 00 03 01 01 D503 https://benjamins.com/covers/3d_web/slcs.145.hb.png 01 01 JB code slcs.145.00int 06 10.1075/slcs.145.00int vii xx 14 Article 1 01 04 Introduction Introduction 1 A01 01 JB code 838199144 Brian Nolan Nolan, Brian Brian Nolan 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/838199144 2 A01 01 JB code 118199145 Elke Diedrichsen Diedrichsen, Elke Elke Diedrichsen 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/118199145 01 eng 01 01 JB code slcs.145.01gue 06 10.1075/slcs.145.01gue 1 22 22 Article 2 01 04 Controller-controllee relations in purposive constructions Controller-controllee relations in purposive constructions 01 04 A construction-based account A construction-based account 1 A01 01 JB code 492199146 Lilián Guerrero Guerrero, Lilián Lilián Guerrero 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/492199146 01 eng 30 00

This paper examines purpose and rationale clauses, two subtypes of purposive constructions. The study of these constructions has been mainly developed for English within formal syntax. A purpose clause is a VP-internal adjunct containing a gap bound to the matrix object(i.e. controllee), while a rationale clause is a VP-external adjunct lacking a gap bounded to the matrix object. A similar approach to controller-pivot relationships for purpose has been adopted in previous studies in Role and Reference Grammar. Based on cross-linguistic data, I argue that the lexical manifestation of the controlled element is a language-specific feature, i.e. it can be covert or overt. In some languages, the two lexical manifestations are possible, i.e. a construction-specific property.

01 01 JB code slcs.145.02wat 06 10.1075/slcs.145.02wat 23 40 18 Article 3 01 04 Transitivity, constructions, and the projection of argument structure in RRG Transitivity, constructions, and the projection of argument structure in RRG 1 A01 01 JB code 848199147 James K. Watters Watters, James K. James K. Watters 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/848199147 01 eng 30 00

Traditional “projectionist” accounts of transitivity project the argument structure of a clause from the head verb. Some studies within Construction Grammar have shown this does not account for cases in which syntactic frames override a verb’s inherent transitivity, arguing instead that transitivity is determined by the syntactic construction. Such examples typically come from English and related languages in which many or most verbs freely occur in transitive or intransitive frames without any overt derivational morphology. However, in languages such as Tepehua (Totonacan), verbs have rigidly specified transitivity, with no such overriding of argument structure. Role and Reference Grammar treats argument structure as a projection from the composite logical structure, accounting for clause structure in both types of languages.

01 01 JB code slcs.145.03tor 06 10.1075/slcs.145.03tor 41 66 26 Article 4 01 04 Constructions in RRG Constructions in RRG 01 04 A case study of mimetic verbs in Japanese A case study of mimetic verbs in Japanese 1 A01 01 JB code 198199148 Kiyoko Toratani Toratani, Kiyoko Kiyoko Toratani 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/198199148 01 eng 30 00

This paper examines the ability of a mimetic verb in Japanese (e.g. burabura ‘manner of swinging’ + suru ‘do’ → burabura-suru) to occur in different morphosyntactic environments. Following Van Valin (2013), it argues that two seemingly contradictory standpoints, a constructionist’s view (Tsujimura 2005) and a projectionist’s view (Kageyama 2007), are actually complementary. While an account of intransitive mimetic verbs requires no postulation of constructional schemas, as these verbs show straightforward cases of linking in simple sentences, the paper utilizes two constructional schemas to cover notable characteristics of transitive mimetic verbs: one for mimetics compounded by -sase ‘cause’ and the other for the colloquial alternate of the adverbial mimetic-transitive verb combination.

01 01 JB code slcs.145.04moe 06 10.1075/slcs.145.04moe 67 102 36 Article 5 01 04 A constructional perspective on clefting in Persian A constructional perspective on clefting in Persian 01 04 An insight into differentiating between emphatic and deictic in An insight into differentiating between emphatic and deictic in 1 A01 01 JB code 430199149 Farhad Moezzipour Moezzipour, Farhad Farhad Moezzipour 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/430199149 01 eng 30 00

The goal of this chapter is to provide a Role and Reference Grammar (RRG henceforth) analysis of cleft sentences in Persian with respect to the role of interaction over the domains of syntax, semantics and information structure. Clefting is functionally motivated by thematically marked expression of a single proposition via bi-partition syntax in the sense that a sequence of two clauses including a matrix and a cleft clause is employed in order to bring into focus an element that can be otherwise expressed as a non-focal element in the unmarked predicate-focus structure. This deviation from the unmarked predicate-focus structure feeds cleft sentences with a non-isomorphic/non-compositional feature that can be accounted for in terms of a constructional framework that encompasses the morphosyntactic, semantic and informational properties that a cleft construction has. RRG is equipped with a bi-lateral syntax-semantics representation that is enriched with discourse-pragmatic considerations which enables it to facilitate processing of linguistic properties of cleft constructions by means of constructional schemas. Non-compositionality in a cleft construction implies that the semantic composition of the whole cleft construction is not the “computable sum of the meaning of its parts” (Lambrecht 1994: 230). That is why a construction-based scrutiny will be necessary to explain how the mapping between semantics and information structure in clefting can be elucidated with respect to the syntactic juxtaposition of the constituents. It will be also discussed that there should be a necessity to distinguish between emphatic in in clefting and anaphoric in in extraposition in the Persian language with regard to the role of information structure that is distinctively formalized in the syntactic templates of the two constructions on the basis of the RRG constructional framework.

01 01 JB code slcs.145.05kai 06 10.1075/slcs.145.05kai 103 142 40 Article 6 01 04 Radical Role and Reference Grammar (RRRG) Radical Role and Reference Grammar (RRRG) 01 04 A sketch for remodelling the Syntax-Semantics-Interface A sketch for remodelling the Syntax-Semantics-Interface 1 A01 01 JB code 872199150 Rolf Kailuweit Kailuweit, Rolf Rolf Kailuweit 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/872199150 01 eng 30 00

Starting from the idea of a “holistic approach” (Van Valin 1980) based on text interpretation and communication analysis, the chapter sketches a radical, i.e. back to the roots, remodelling of standard RRG (Van Valin & LaPolla 1997; Van Valin 2005, 2010). It will be shown that a bidirectional linking algorithm (syntax-to-semantics and semantics-to-syntax), no matter how useful it may be for computational implementation, is not an adequate model of human communication. As Van Valin (2006) himself recognizes, the semantic as well as the syntactic representation are already infiltrated by one another. Thus, RRRG will abandon the linking algorithms and instead advocate for three structural levels of different complexity that assumedly function simultaneously: lexical items, syntactic-semantic event templates and construction schemas. As in standard RRG, general rules and principles operate at all levels. In RRG, the most prominent of these principles is the Actor-Undergoer-Hierarchy which is based on actionsart-driven Logical Structures (LS). However, LS prove to be too coarse-grained to describe the different activity degrees material to argument realization. Therefore, a finer-grained Activity Hierarchy will be introduced. The functioning of this centrepiece of RRRG will be illustrated with verbs of emotion (Kailuweit 2005, 2007, 2012a) at the level of lexical items and with anticausative constructions (Kailuweit 2011b, 2012b) at the level of constructional schemas.

01 01 JB code slcs.145.06nol 06 10.1075/slcs.145.06nol 143 178 36 Article 7 01 04 Constructions as grammatical objects Constructions as grammatical objects 01 04 A case study of the prepositional ditransitive construction in Modern Irish A case study of the prepositional ditransitive construction in Modern Irish 1 A01 01 JB code 254199151 Brian Nolan Nolan, Brian Brian Nolan 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/254199151 01 eng 30 00

It is now accepted that constructions exist at all levels in grammar from clausal syntax to word level morphology and even within the lexicon itself where lexical items themselves may be viewed as constructions. Constructions may also encompass lexical, semantic and pragmatic information. The semantics and/or pragmatics are not predictable from the set of lexical items in the construction. There is now recognition that the RRG account of constructions is a significantly under-utilised resource (Nolan 2013, 2012a, b, 2011). As functional linguists, the important empirical questions are: (1) How does the theory understand a construction? (2) What does a construction contain? (3) How do the constructions relate to the grammar and other constructions? (4) To what extent is our grammatical knowledge organized in constructions? (5) Do constructions include information about form, function and meaning? (6) Are constructions organized in a structured network? This paper proposes a view of constructions as structured grammatical objects and we motivate this account with new evidence of constructions from Modern Irish.

01 01 JB code slcs.145.07jim 06 10.1075/slcs.145.07jim 179 204 26 Article 8 01 04 Constructions in Role and Reference Grammar Constructions in Role and Reference Grammar 01 04 The case of the English resultative The case of the English resultative 1 A01 01 JB code 527199152 Rocío Jiménez Briones Jiménez Briones, Rocío Rocío Jiménez Briones 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/527199152 2 A01 01 JB code 861199153 Alba Luzondo Oyón Luzondo Oyón, Alba Alba Luzondo Oyón 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/861199153 01 eng 30 00

Framed within Role and Reference Grammar, this chapter provides a finer-grained account of the English resultative constructions (e.g. He hammered the metal flat/into a knife), which enriches the constructional schema suggested in Van Valin (2005). In so doing, we mainly follow the work carried out by Nolan (2011a, b) and Diedrichsen (2010, 2011), while also drawing on insights coming from the family of Construction Grammars (e.g. Goldberg 1995; Goldberg & Jackendoff 2004, inter alios). In turn, a further step is taken here by proposing the incorporation of additional features such as the motivation of the construction and its family resemblance connection; two essential issues which heavily depend upon the role of metaphor and metonymy (Ruiz de Mendoza & Mairal 2011).

01 01 JB code slcs.145.08per 06 10.1075/slcs.145.08per 205 230 26 Article 9 01 04 Towards a model of constructional meaning for natural language understanding Towards a model of constructional meaning for natural language understanding 1 A01 01 JB code 865199154 Carlos Periñán-Pascual Periñán-Pascual, Carlos Carlos Periñán-Pascual 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/865199154 01 eng 30 00

Few researchers in natural language processing are nowadays concerned with linguistically-aware applications. On the contrary, the prevailing trend is towards the search of engineering solutions to practical problems, where researchers are motivated by the immediate gratification from the stochastic paradigm. As a result, there have been few attempts to confront the new challenges in linguistics from the natural language processing approach. The goal of this chapter is to introduce the theoretical foundation underlying ARTEMIS, a knowledge-based system which is intended to simulate natural language understanding in the framework of Role and Reference Grammar. More specifically, we will focus on how to enhance this functional model in order to make argumental constructions play a decisive role in the computational analysis of the deep semantics in the text.

01 01 JB code slcs.145.09iba 06 10.1075/slcs.145.09iba 231 270 40 Article 10 01 04 Meaning construction, meaning interpretation and formal expression in the Lexical Constructional Model Meaning construction, meaning interpretation and formal expression in the Lexical Constructional Model 1 A01 01 JB code 225199155 Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco José Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/225199155 01 eng 30 00

This paper discusses how the Lexical Constructional Model (LCM) contributes to our understanding of meaning is constructed, interpreted and expressed. It especially addresses the role of constructional meaning in this complex process, while making critical revisions of other constructionist accounts of language, whether cognitivist or functionalist. It includes the notion of replicability into the definition of construction. According to this notion, a form-meaning pairing can be considered a construction, even if the pairing is not frequent, provided that it can be felt by competent native speakers as being ‘potentially replicable’, i.e. as being naturally meaningful without doing any violence to the nature of the language to which the construction belongs. The paper further argues that constructional structure mediates the syntactic realization of verbal meaning. In this view, meaning is not composed by assembling concepts, as postulated in Cognitive Grammar, but rather by making use of the conceptual scaffolding provided by constructions. Then, the paper relates the architecture of the LCM to a taxonomy of cognitive models and addresses meaning construction from the point of view of the descriptive and explanatory tools of the LCM. These tools include the definition of several central processes: subsumption, amalgamation, and saturation of variables. The role of each process is assessed at the various descriptive levels of the LCM. Finally, the paper relates formal expression to meaning representation in terms of idiomatic and non-idiomatic constructions. In this connection it specifies the requirements for full formal expression and relates such requirements to the format of constructional templates in the LCM.

01 01 JB code slcs.145.10but 06 10.1075/slcs.145.10but 271 294 24 Article 11 01 04 Constructions in the Lexical Constructional Model Constructions in the Lexical Constructional Model 1 A01 01 JB code 625199156 Christopher S. Butler Butler, Christopher S. Christopher S. Butler 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/625199156 01 eng 30 00

This article discusses the concept of construction in the Lexical Constructional Model, focusing on tensions, concerned largely with the relationship between meaning and form in constructions, which have arisen in the model as a result of contributions from three different groups of scholars: functionalists, cognitivists and computational linguists/computer scientists. The article examines precursors of the LCM which made use of ideas from Role and Reference Grammar, and then assesses the influence of the cognitivist contribution and the later input from the computational knowledge base, FunGramKB, also based partly on RRG. Finally, it summarises recent work in RRG, suggesting that the new proposals for treating constructional schemas as central to RRG could prove useful in working towards solutions of the problems arising within the LCM.

01 01 JB code slcs.145.11die 06 10.1075/slcs.145.11die 295 330 36 Article 12 01 04 From idioms to sentence structures and beyond From idioms to sentence structures and beyond 01 04 The theoretical scope of the concept "Construction" The theoretical scope of the concept "Construction" 1 A01 01 JB code 974199157 Elke Diedrichsen Diedrichsen, Elke Elke Diedrichsen 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/974199157 01 eng 30 00

The paper will explore the theoretical scope of the concept “construction”, as envisaged in Constructional approaches to grammar. Starting from the Role and Reference Grammar notion of Constructions, as represented in “Constructional Schemas”, it will be argued that Constructional Schemas as representations of linguistic knowledge can be used not only for language specific constructions, but for the wide range of argument structure and sentence structure constructions as well. This will be exemplified by extensive discussions of two well known German construction types, which are the bekommen-passive, a passive three-place argument structure construction, and the bracket structure, which is a sentence structure pattern that forms the basis of many syntactic phenomena in German. It will be argued that the Construction in this sense is to be treated as a “grammatical object”, whose use is systematically constrained by context factors and also by lexical-semantic factors. The Constructional Schemas give an extensive representation of the constructions by providing the constraints of their use, the constraints for their recognition in a stream of speech or writing, their syntax, their semantics, morphology and pragmatics. The model of constructional schemas caters for real-time processing in a workspace. The notion of constructional knowledge for the processing of linguistic utterances is then taken a step further and expanded to include constructions whose use and functionality is not mainly based on grammatical knowledge, but rather on cultural knowledge. Some “idioms” do not “work” on their own, but require a very subtle mix of culturally acquired background knowledge and situational factors, and their use is deeply embedded in basic behavioural patterns in a society of speakers. I will introduce three speech act constructions, which do not exhibit the form-function correlation that is generally described for the linguistic realisation of illocutionary force, and explain their pragmatic effects by adhering to Dawkin’s notion of the cultural unit “meme” and Wittgenstein’s idea of “life form”.

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